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Laying The Foundationof Social Science

Social scientists conduct fieldwork to identify and characterize social facts by directly observing people interacting within social contexts using their senses. They seek to reveal the underlying structures and institutions that shape people's lives, such as religion, economy, kinship, laws, and language, which correspond to academic disciplines. Certain methodological approaches are used to capture the elusive, subjective, and often covert nature of social phenomena through first-hand observation.

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Laying The Foundationof Social Science

Social scientists conduct fieldwork to identify and characterize social facts by directly observing people interacting within social contexts using their senses. They seek to reveal the underlying structures and institutions that shape people's lives, such as religion, economy, kinship, laws, and language, which correspond to academic disciplines. Certain methodological approaches are used to capture the elusive, subjective, and often covert nature of social phenomena through first-hand observation.

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Laying the Foundationof Social

Science:Fieldwork
Sensory Perception
- Has a lot to do with Identifying and characterizing”facts” in the social
data set.
- Practically everything that people do as outcome of the interaction
with other people within a given social context is considered a “Social
fact”.
- This facts should from the beginning, be able to reveal themselves
through the sensory faculties of the one doing the obsevation.
- He/she must see, hear, feel, taste,or touch reality.
- These facts reveal the underlying structures and institution of their
lives: religion, economy. Kinship, laws, governance, tradition, languege,
etc.
- If you look closely,, each of those underlying facets of culture
corresponds to a social science desipline speciallzing on that respect
- To capture this elusive, subjective, and usually, covert nature of social
phenomena, certain methodological are employed

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